Werner Schroeter: Rare Early Work 1

Maria Callas was Schroeter‘s great obsessive passion. His career began with a series of 8mm films (digitally preserved) that explored the possibilities of montage, movement, and collage through pictures of Callas that he cut out of magazines and newspapers. Mona Lisa features a kind of rap soundtrack that mixes Callas’s voice with that of the German pop singer Catarina Valente. Maria Callas Sings..., a deeply personal film, shows Schroeter dancing naked in his apartment. Carla Sings is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu impersonates Callas. And Aggression, Schroeter’s first 16mm film, is the fictive portrait of a woman who is oppressed by her (unseen) boyfriend.

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